5.8M views · Aug 23, 2018 · 12:39 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2019–2020
Linus Tech Tips backs up their petabyte server to Google's unlimited G Suite Drive plan and runs into the daily upload cap. It shows how far the 'unlimited' offer can be pushed.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as an example of data hoarders testing Google's unlimited storage and of Google rate limiting heavy use.
“relevant video on this unlimited plan and the way it is capped.”HN comment, 2019
“relevant video on this unlimited plan and the way it is capped.”
Explains the daily upload cap on Google's unlimited plan.
relevant video on this unlimited plan and the way it is capped. this video tl;dw Upload is limited to 750GB per day per account
“Reminds me of the Linus Tech Tips video where they try to use Google's claim of unlimited free storage”
Example of Google rate limiting heavy use of unlimited storage.
Ah, I see now. Google will store an unlimited number of photos that they compress to "High Quality" and it is limited to 15 GB uploaded per day. There is a storage limit on the "Original Quality" images (e.g. images not put through Google's compression). Reminds me of the Linus Tech Tips video where they try to use Google's claim of unlimited free storage to backup their video library to Google Drive [1]. Eventually Google rate limits their access so harshly that it becomes a practical limit. Just like those "unlimited" mobile data plans that eventually slow down your service it is really just marketing. They hide the actual limits but they are there to prevent abuse. 1. this video
Example of data hoarders abusing unlimited storage.
> If you have unlimited storage, the data hoarders will find out about it and abuse it. That reminds me of: Linus Tech Tips: I Hope Google Doesn’t Ban Us... - Abusing Unlimited Google Drive this video
